The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-08-26
NO. l..
oF GENERAL INTEREST.

Hght the BRUSH buses Win elecGflClty.
Smoking has been completely for
hidden on any part of Cineinnati's
horse cars.
The New York EUening Post fig
mes the cost of labor strikes for the
last year at $1O,0OO,OO0.
1t is well to look upon every dog
asmad and treat him accordingly. The
cost of keeping the dogs of America
would soon wipe out the National debt.
"A lady being questioned in court
the other day as to why she had
changed her religion, stated she had
done so because, being separated from
her husband, she determined to avoid
meeting him in the next world.
Columbus, Ga, is the only city in
the South that has no morning news
paper. Persistent lovers there do not
have to bribe the carrier; if they make
it square with the milkman they can
stay till it is almost time for breakfast.
-SOnerUille Journal.
At a famous water-cure some odd
forms of cure are whey, buttermilk and
strawberry. Whey is prescribed for
affections of the chest, buttermilk for
certain diseases of the stomach and
strawberries to purify the blood. The
buttermilk and Strawberries are favor
ite remedies.
Jonathan HOustin, a ragged old
man, of Decatur. Ind, died recently,
and the authorities ordered his clothes
to be burned. Before the order was
carried out the rags were examined,
and 5000 in currency and 81, 800 in GER
tificates of deposit to the Adams Coun-
ty Bank were found.
Lovers of the waltz may celebrate
its centenary. The first dance which
could be described as a waltz was in.
troduced TO the public in an opera at
Vienna in 1887 by one Vicente Martin
Solar Commonly called Martini 10
Spagnuolo), who was a popular COM
poser at the court of Joseph II.
"A water-rat weighing probably
more than two pounds was seen to go
to a brood of chickens and seize one.
The hen chased the rat and a desperate
fight ensued, the hen eventually sue
ceeding in killing its foe and rescuing
the chicken. The latter appeared little
the worse for its strange experience.
In Tangipahoa Parish, La, is an
organization called the "White Horse
men," The members wear white
masks and white uniforms, cover their
horses with white cloths. and devote
considerable attention to negroes who
are suspected of stealing. The last
one they whipped had just robbed a
smokehouse.
The hackmen of Victoria, British
Columbia, subscribed 800 toward the
celebration of the Queens jubilee at
that place, but the hack ordinance was
published in the C0I0RtSt, and they as
serted that this, by apprising visitors Of
their rights, reduced the hackmen' $
profits, and they refused to pay the
money subscribed.
According to an analysis made by
a chemist in the employ of the New
York World only twenty-six per cent.
of the milk sold in that city is adulter-
ated by the sellers. It's the retailer and
the hotel and restaurant people who
give it that pale blue tint so familiar to
all who have the hardihood to call for a
glass.-Dctrott Free Press.
Ida Boles, who works at a Reading
hotel, arose the other morning with a
singing sensation in her head, fol-
lowed by terrible headache. She
went to a physician, who removed from
her ear an ugly-looking night bug,
about one-third of an inch long. The
insect was one of the bugs often seen
flying in the vicinity Of strong lights at
night.
"A valuable mare i'm England re-
Gently gave birth 10 a foal. A faint
line indicated the position Of the eye
lids, but the animal was apparently
without eyes. An incision across each
eyelid was made, and the foal immedi-
ately its eyes were opened recognized
its dam. During n period of twenty
three years the veterinary surgeon has
not met with such a ease.
-Overgaitcrs are again fashionable.
1t is correct TO have several shades, ac-
cording to the part of the country you
are going 10 for the summer. To be
sure the shades are correct, send TO the
clefks Oi biit FtlibHo HObblS you iubtbu
to stop at for samples Of the dust found
on the road in front of the hotel. Take
these samples TO your shoemaker and
have the oyergaiters made TO match.
"A physician is summoned TO the
house Of a sick man. lie hastens TO
the patients bedside. "Alas =" he
murmurs. on taking the poor mans
hand, "therc is nothing to be done /;
the hand is already green" g But, sir,
my husband is a dyer" "Oh, very
we'll" answered the physician. you
have really a chance. II he had been a
dier he would have been dead in five
minutes.
"A man in Lafayette. Ind, was re-
Gently granted divorce from his wife
on the ground that she was an invetcr-
ate smoker and uscr Of tobacco in all
forms. The Wom0n's Stanetard thinks
that 'if the wives Of all men who arc
addicted 10 its use should seek 10 ba
released from matrimonial bonds on
that account, the courts would be in
permanent session. and lawyers would
become immensely wealthy"
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